The voucher scam is still a pig. No matter what lies your bought and paid for voucher clowns dream up.

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I’d like to read Burnie Maybank’s report. When PPIC was a hot topic of discussion a few years ago, someone (maybe it was Maybank) came out with a study saying how much money school choice would save public schools. But I think it’s questionable, at best:

**What are the “demand” estimates? And is there any reason to suspect that supply can legitimately meet demand? What about counties where the private schools are full? Maybe someone will start a new private school — doesn’t mean families are going to rush to it the way they would the established, well-heeled private schools.

**What about the cost to public schools of losing one or two students at a time? This has been pointed out over and over (and over and over and over and….), but the school choice advocates still breeze by this issue. If a school of 400 students loses 30 students from five different grades, there is a good chance that school won’t cut much in the way of costs at all….it’s probably not enough to lay off a teacher, cut a bus route, reduce administrative costs, remove books from the library, sell off computers, etc.

So, even if “some of the money” or whatever stays with the public school, it’s likely that most schools won’t be able to cut significant costs if they lose enrollment — unless they lose really large number of students.

Again, though, that does get back to the question of private school demand and how many students might actually leave.

How much do current private and homeschooling families save the State of South Carolina? Hundreds of millions of dollars. The tax credit portion of this bill would only give them a fraction of what is currently being spent on pupils in the public school. From what I understand, current private school students wouldn’t get anything for three years while home schoolers get a $1K tax credit once the bill is passed and implemented.

The student scholarship organizations for poor children are real. They are working in a number of other states and offer choice options for parents – regardless of skin color and regardless of zip code.

lets face it, thats what this is all about…..

the whole “better choices for poor children” is a smokescreen to funnel the money back into the pockets of those already enrolled. How much will Bryant get back in the first year, since he home schools his kids and I doubt that he has ever even been inside a public school for any reason other than a photo shoot..

Only if there is any money left or room left in these schools will we finally see the poor, underpriveledged children be given a shot at standing in line for the few remiaing spots in these schools.